[ubuntu-za] Problem installing Ubuntu 9.10

[Johan Mynhardt]

2009/10/30 Jason Plank <plank.jason at gmail.com>:
> Hi guys
>
> I hope someone can help me out. A friend of mine downloaded the 32bit
> iso for me and I burned a copy tonight. The livecd works fine on my
> friends pc. I tried to install via Wubi and also run the livecd on my
> system, but I get a weird error. It get's to the part where it should
> load gdm, then it just stays at the text and the screen just flickers.
> I really don't know what to look for as I haven't had a problem like
> this before and 9.04 worked flawlessly. My PC is AMD Athlon 64 bit, 2
> gig RAM and 256Mb nvidia 7600gs. Any help would really be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jason
>
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Hmm, had what sounds like the exact same problem. Only in my case I
got to install Karmic, then (download and) enable the nvidia 17x
driver (because jockey told me it's the recommended version). Upon
reboot I was greeted by this not-so-friendly flickering terminal. I
tried it twice (after fixing my /etc/X11/xorg.conf using the live
disk) with no success. I will try the 190 version tomorrow morning. If
that does not work, bummer.

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